Frederick Strange

[2] Strange supplied specimens to botanists, ornithologists and other workers, including the previously undescribed Prince Albert's lyre-bird Menura alberti, and others used as types for bird species described by John Gould: sooty owl Strix tenebricosa, plumed frogmouth Podargus plumiferus, pale-yellow robin Eopsaltria capito, mangrove honeyeater Ptilotis fasciogularis and rufous shrike-thrush Colluricincla rufogaster.

That species, an aquatic plant with large flowers that was compared to celebrated exotic Victoria amazonica, was then named and described by William Hooker and illustrated by Walter Hood Fitch.

[2] His notes on Australian and New Zealand birds, little known to Europeans, were published via Gould, such as letters read before by the Zoological Society of London in 1847 which gave details of the kākāpō and a new species of kiwi.

Walter Hill, who had been exploring on his own, returned to their ship late in the day on the island, after Dalaipi had found and warned him of the events that led to the deaths of the rest of the party.

[9][8] The fate of Strange's party became a sensational story in the newspapers and local folklore, inspiring the poem by George French Angas with the first line "By Savage Hands His Steps Were Stayed!".

The death of Frederick Strange was portrayed in the poem's theme and media reports of the time as one of a patriotic hero of science having succumbed to an "untutored native savage".